Vahab Mirrokni is a Senior Staff Research Scientist, heading the algorithms research
group at Google Research, New York. He received his PhD from MIT in 2005 and his B.Sc.
from Sharif University of Technology in 1999. He joined Google Research in New York in
2008, after spending a couple of years at Microsoft Research, MIT and Amazon.com. He is
the co-winner of a SODA05 best student paper award and ACM EC08 best paper award. His
research areas include algorithms, algorithmic game theory, combinatorial optimization,
and social networks analysis. At Google, he is mainly working on algorithmic and
economic problems related to search and online advertising. Recently he is working on
online ad allocation problems, distributed algorithms for large-scale graph mining, and
mechanism design for advertising exchanges. He also has a personal homepage.